Claim to fame: “Bringing a catalog of our original soul and R&B music from the United Kingdom and our uniquely Scottish groove to an American multicultural and multi-ethnic audience in such vast numbers,” Alan Gorrie says. “Having such enormous success with the records we made, around the world. Through hundreds of samples of those recordings by the biggest rap and hip-hop artists through the last 15 years, a new audience has grown to welcome the ‘AWB experience’ and has enabled us to stay relevant to this day doing what we love most — energy-fueled live performances to all ages of music fans.”

What to expect: “The Syracuse audience can expect more of what we played (at the fest) last summer, plus the things we didn’t get to do because of the rain-truncated situation we ran into that night,” Gorrie says. “And, as always, a couple of things as yet unplanned. We have to keep ourselves surprised gig to gig, too.”